growth

A six-year-old boy describes the things he liked when he was five and compares them to the things he likes now.

A little girl delights her brother with a series of promises about all the wonderful things she'll do to make him happy as they both grow up.

Although she is too small to roller-skate backwards or ride a bike with no hands, Katie surprises her older brother and sister when she teaches their dog a new trick.

A child envisions such pleasures of growing up as dancing at a prom, driving a car, and traveling to faraway places.

Photographs depict a polar bear cub at first with mama bear and then later in activities alone.

Zachary the tiger cub is good at art and reading and not good at sports, but he proves to his athletic father that they can still do things together.

Wishing he had something to be clever at like each of the other children in his class, Ling Sung unexpectedly and happily discovers the others admire his prowess with chopsticks.

A mother and her young daughter reflect on the daughter's growing up, including her infancy, potty training, first words, and starting school, noting how nothing has been what the mother expected.

As the years go by, the members of Leo Leotardi's family continue to think he is just a baby.

Ruby, the last of Mother Duck's and Father Duck's eggs to hatch, is slower to develop than her four siblings, until the day that she flies further and higher than any of them.